How to Use colossal in a Sentence

colossal

adjective

• Schwarzenegger! O’Donnell! — was the colossal flop of 1997.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• Even among the colossal estates of Bel-Air, the house is over the top.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• As the Rebbe saw him, the Rebbe threw him a kiss coupled with a colossal smile.
  — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• But the colossal star can’t even get on the WrestleMania card?
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Another way of putting the above is that records are a colossal pain in the ass.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
• This winter has been one for the record books, with the snowpack built up to colossal heights across the state.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Ledgers opened a colossal 17-0 gap over the Lightning at halftime.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Blue Jays opened a colossal 39-23 gap over the Trojans at halftime.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2023
• The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• For all of the wise decisions made at the top of the NBA draft, there have been some colossal misfires over the years.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
• No one there seems to care very much that Walsh left a colossal mess on his way out the door in Boston.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
• The view of New York's skyline, bathed by the fading sun, is shown through the colossal windows.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• The clip ends with all four dancing on the edge of danger while doing choreo in the jaws of a colossal bear trap.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
• Each year, an artist creates a colossal statue that pays homage to the fair's theme.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
• But it's been hard to avoid seeing the colossal gains GameStop and Bitcoin investors over the course of 2021.
  — Chron, 23 Apr. 2021
• To only lose, say, a month worth of work would be a colossal success.
  — Dave Thier, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• By the looks of it, the Packers should be colossal favorites to run away with the division again in 2021.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• About 6 miles away, hot ash began spewing from the ground in a colossal geyser.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2021
• The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Towns will play the four alongside Rudy Gobert, who comes from Utah in a colossal trade.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
• But Graceland showed him the colossal hugeness of Elvis.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• Some of the fires raging in the West are threatening places that were hit by colossal blazes just a few years ago.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• The screen, filled with images at once colossal and weightless, may well be the biggest carpet in the city.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• And Jones and Darnold are testaments to what a colossal mess football in New York is.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2021
• In San Francisco, there's a legend of a colossal sope, a corn saucer that's as big as a dog bowl.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• That’s a colossal misstep and shows just how much of a mess DC was before Gunn’s arrival.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• Like putting it in writing will lead to some colossal collapse.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 June 2021
• George Foreman, whose colossal career in the ring saw the legendary boxer take home two heavyweight championships, has died at the age of 76.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
• The storms moving and forming across the country arrived just days after a colossal system barreled across the U.S., killing at least 42 people.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025